{"id":63,"date":"2022-07-20T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T07:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2023-07-27T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T08:48:16","slug":"drums-and-colours","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/drums-and-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"Drums and Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Call the troops to order<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>About<\/strong><br>\u2018The Drum is the Voice of Command\u2019.&nbsp; The drums are used by the officers to control the troops and to relay messages to them on the battlefield.&nbsp;There are a number of &#8216;drum calls&#8217; such as the Troop, the Battalia, and (almost never for us) the Retreat, and a soldier hearing these would know what he was required to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">If you have a sense of rhythm, being a drummer is a good way to be right in the middle of the action without taking an active part in the fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>The Regimental Colours<\/strong> <br><br>&#8216;Colours&#8217; is the name given to the flags representing different regiments or their component parts.  Historically, they acted as a rallying point in the heat and smoke of battle, so that soldiers could easily spot their unit by its Colours, and the same is true during a reenactment battle.  Colours embody the honour of the regiment, and are carried by an Ensign, a junior officer, who must defend them from capture at all odds. Losing the Colours to the enemy was the greatest disgrace for a regiment as it symbolised complete defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0_Charles-I-commemoration.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65\" width=\"591\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0_Charles-I-commemoration.jpg 2116w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0_Charles-I-commemoration-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0_Charles-I-commemoration-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0_Charles-I-commemoration-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0_Charles-I-commemoration-1536x891.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0_Charles-I-commemoration-2048x1188.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0_Charles-I-commemoration-624x362.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ensign and colour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7418115-md-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109\" width=\"621\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7418115-md-1.jpg 679w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7418115-md-1-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7418115-md-1-624x271.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Drummers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call the troops to order About\u2018The Drum is the Voice of Command\u2019.&nbsp; The drums are used by the officers to control the troops and to relay messages to them on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawdons.org\/rawdons\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}